title: Activities of daily living scale for patients with chronic pain.
abstract: 10 questions measuring daily living activities of chronic pain patients were developed for 30 chronic pain patients. Test-retest reliability was .89, and internal consistency was .75. Validity, measured by global ratings (r = .63) and those by significant others (r = .77) was satisfactory. This Activities of Daily Living Scale seems to be reliable and valid for use in clinical and research settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Medicine, Orebro Medical Center, Sweden.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Linton
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results